Mr. President. when I came to Congress the of the most Inhuman and cruel features of any law enacted ini Government was admitting into our country a million and a recent years by the Congress of the United States. quarter foreigners every year. I commenced immediately to 1 ask you Senators is there any grief comparable with that try to have our immigration laws amended. and all during my of loneliness? I know of no human suffering. I know of service in the two Houses of Congress I have fought to restrict no mental anguish that is so great. so piercing. as that of lone- immigration. We have now reduced the number of immigrants liness. This amendment seeks to remove from thousands of to about 300.000 each year. The amendment as originally prohuman beings one of the most poignant sorrows a human posed by the Senator from New York . as I being can bearloneliness. the forced separation of children understand it. would open the way for bringing in more than from father. of wife from husband. of father from family. The 600.000 immigrants. immigration law has worked and is fostering this cruelty. Mr. WADSWORTH.
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